I think I would just bury the travel in the price of the piece. Calculate it using your normal rate for labor.

Why? Because that is productive time that you cannot do anything in the shop, thus you are losing that much in production.

If that causes the price of the piece to rise beyond what is acceptable to the customer you can tell them to ship one of the pieces you are to match to your shop. That would cut 6-8 hours of labor cost to them and you could still be productive in the shop.

That sounds like a plan, I might just charge him one way. This is suppose to be a 3 Million dollar home. The job is being offered to me from the Sound Room ( they specialize in audio components ) he says they have about $ 65,000.00 in equipment there.

Gary Puckett wrote:...I might just charge him one way. This is suppose to be a 3 Million dollar home. The job is being offered to me from the Sound Room ( they specialize in audio components ) he says they have about $ 65,000.00 in equipment there...

In a $3 million home with $65K in A/V equipment, they can easily afford to pay BOTH ways.